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Google doodle celebrates Robert Moog's birthday - …

Born in New York in 1934, Moog studied at the Bronx High School of Science before receiving a bachelors degree in physics from Queens college in 1957. The first Moog Synth was released in 1964 and Moog once said of the invention "I didn't know what the hell I was doing. I was doing this thing to have a good time, then all of a sudden someone's saying to me, 'I'll take one of those and two of that.' That's how I got into business." Robert Moog died of a brain tumour in 2005 aged 71 following a four month battle with the disease.

Wave goodbye to any productivity today as Google are celebrating what would have been the 78th birthday of synthesiser pioneer Robert Moog. The musical Google Doodle returns today in the form of a synthesiser. Used by bands such as the Beatles and The Doors the Moog Synthesiser revolutionised music, making the synthesiser smaller and easier to use. Google's virtual version also comes with a 4 track recorder so you can layer and even share your sounds if you’re a Google+ user.

As I am a music lover, today not only Google honors him as I also pay tribute to Robert Arthur Bob Moog, best known as the inventor of the . If he was alive, this American gentleman would be 78 years old. Considered the pioneer of electronic music, Bob Moog was the founder of Moog Music.